Tuesday, April 26, 2011

I'm working on setting up more ways to help you all stay connected to the blog, and as a thank you to all of you who come back and read my posts, I'd like to do a giveaway as soon as I reach 25 followers.

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Another staple ingredient I use in all my herbal salves along with Calendula is Comfrey.

The leaves are used in salve making and they have amazing healing benefits. Staph infections for instance, which are caused by Staphylococcal bacteria, are quickly killed by simply applying Comfrey salve to the infected area. Open wounds heal extremely fast - usually within 24 hours or less- and usually leave no scars behind as well. Broken bones are known to heal faster when Comfrey is applied to the outside of the affected area, and torn ligaments and tendons also heal quite quickly when a Comfrey salve is applied externally. Not only does Comfrey start the healing process quite fast, it also helps relieve pain as soon as it comes in contact with the injured area. It's also excellent for bringing down swelling and reducing inflammation.

Comfrey also heals hard-to-heal wounds such as bites from brown recluse spiders, diabetic ulcers, and bedsores.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

"People like to push the blame of their pain onto others and external conditions. While other people and external conditions can affect the quality of your energy—it is precisely within your very own ability to discipline your own emotion and mind and maintain the quality of your own inner feelings that grants you the very ability to withstand things. Essentially, all you have to really do is vibrate faster than anything that is affecting you. If you don’t understand what it means to vibrate faster—understand this. You are a reflection of your own attitudes and inner feelings. Change your attitudes and inner feelings, and your energy vibrates faster, because they are essentially the same thing. Energy is a feeling.

There is nothing that you can’t heal, if you can only change the way you feel. Put that on your fridge.

Emotional reaction and rigid intellectual opinions are the very things that degrade the very quality of a person’s body, life, and spirit. I try to teach people: No Emotion—No Mind. No Reaction—No Opinion. Because emotion is nothing more than a reaction of the rigid intellectual opinions of the human ego. And the rigid intellectual opinions of the human ego are nothing more than programming from the hammer of conditioning. Rigid intellectual opinions are the very things that form the limitations of one’s own perception and reality. No Opinion=No Reaction. No Reaction=No Imbalance. No Imbalance=Balance.
If you want to evolve and develop your energy, you have to ditch your rigid intellectual opinions."

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

My life partner Matthew came home late last night from working on a project and fell asleep in front of the space heater. He woke up with a pretty nasty burn on his knee.

I sent him off to school today with a jar of cool salve, knowing it contains herbs and essential oils that will soothe his burn and heal it super quick.

One of my favorite ingredients that I use in all of my salves is Calendula. Calendula is a popular salve and cream ingredient because it decreases the inflammation of sprains, stings, varicose veins and other swellings. It soothes burns, sunburn, rashes, and skin irritations, cures acne, and stops bleeding.

This amazing flower is also anti-fungal, astringent, and anti-viral. Amazing, right?

While other prescription medicated ointments cause contact dermatitis and other crazy side effects, herbal salves do not have any side effects at all. Just healing goodness.

Monday, April 18, 2011

If you're wondering, "What the heck is that thing?"
It's my Ultrasonic Diffuser.

Ultrasonic Diffusers break up Essential Oils into tiny particles and mist them all around the room, so you can get aromatherapy benefits to the max. This one is also a humidifier and lights up slowly through the entire rainbow spectrum, allowing for awesome color therapy as well.

(I tried to get a good picture of the mist coming from the top, but unfortunately, none of the pictures I took do it justice.)

Essential Oils are very powerful healers, and I use them in my products instead of ever using fragrance oils, which are not natural.

Today, I needed a little energizing while packing orders, so I mixed Peppermint Essential Oil with Orange Essential Oil.

Friday, April 15, 2011

I believe that gemstones possess a certain magical quality, having come from our Mother Earth. Just as plants each give us their healing powers in their own way, I believe each stone has it's own healing power to share with us.

Hold a beautiful stone in your hands close to your heart for awhile, you will feel it.